symbols

** SYMBOLS: **

**Tom and Daisy's daughter Pammy:** This could be a symbol of death to Gatsby's dream of being with Daisy. Or showing America's progression to have your children to do better than yourself. When Pammy is born Daisy weeps because Tom is not there and that her baby is a girl. Because it is a girl Daisy fears that Pammy will be just like her, she does not want her to be alone. "Ah All right,' I said. 'Im glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.'

**East egg:** the rich living from 'old money'
 * West egg:** the rich living from 'new money'

 Or the green light represents American dream fading away. And America, industrial and as a world power growing.
 * Green light:** Represents Gatsby’s hope to meet Daisy again and a chance to win her back. "She was so close, yet so far away". The bay separated them, but he could see the light.


 * Valley of Ashes**: Represents death of dreams, loss of hope


 * The Eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg:** Represent the only omniscient God in the dying society

Also, automobiles symbolize freedom. Because now Americans have the opportunity to leave and go where they please. Also it expands the country by allowing people to work in one area and live in another. Allows families to spend less time together, which leads to the break down of morals. Parties/ Alcohol:** Reflect the impaired judgment and morals of the 1920s.
 * Automobiles:** Represent carefree irresponsibility; money that people had that they could now buy these expensive things
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 * Clock** : The clock Gatbsy knocks over is a symbol showing that a person cannot change the past


 * Gabsty's uncut books**: Represent ignorance of other characters that leads to Gatsby's downfall


 * Wolfsheim's cufflinks**: These show the materialism of men of power like Wolfsheim; he tells Nick he noticed him looking at his cufflinks made of human teeth, when Nick hadn't noticed them at all


 * Nicks Thirtieth Birthday**- symbolizes the beginning of a new era and aging. People like Daisy and Tom wanted to remain young and carefree.



MOTIFS: **

__Weather/ Seasons**__: Rain: Gatsby and Daisy’s reunion begins amid a pouring rain, proving awkward and melancholy; their love reawakens just as the sun begins to come out. Heat: Gatsby’s climactic confrontation with Tom occurs on the hottest day of the summer, under the scorching sun (like the fatal encounter between Mercutio and Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet). Autumn: Wilson kills Gatsby on the first day of autumn, as Gatsby floats in his pool despite a palpable chill in the air—a symbolic attempt to stop time and restore his relationship with Daisy to the way it was five years before, in 1917. Spring: Similar to "April is the Cruelest Month" because spring represents a renaissance, rebirth and cleanliness. But the problem is that the year before will never return, be the same. Like the writers of the 1920's mourning the loss of the American dream after WWI, because of the industrial revolution.